Uhh.. this has already been done.. pimp my ride (or some copycat show) had put lcd's in the side bumpers of a car so that what was playing on the inside would be displayed outside the car. It was in SoCal or somewhere warm.. as that shit wouldn't last till xmas up here in Canada. For those that don't know, the salt trucks would pelt the shit out of it, more then likely breaking the lcd's while the cold would just make them non-functional.
The noise floor in any city is just way to high to use 2.4 units with any sort of reliablity.. sure maybe 5 yrs ago this was fesiable but today.. with every laptop having 802.11b/g, all those Linksys/Dlink units flooding the market there is way too much interference.. the frequency levels are limited.
As an WISP, this is the exact reason we are ripping out all the 2.4 equipment, it's pretty much useless now.. you can only get a reliable like like 500ft from a tower (which is pretty shitty). this is amped and on a parabolic dish antenna.. it's crazy how crap the spectrum has become.
I'm writing a paper on how you put enough cars thru a major traffic intersection and it will create a problem and cause downtime in that area. I'm going to to call it a 'traffic jam'.
Tell us something we didn't know.. every technology has it's limit, flood it beyond capacity and you will see it fail.
So what are the choices? ext2/ext3 which are slow, reiserfs which sucks ass when it breaks..
I noticed how they compare the new filesystem to Sun's UFS, which isn't the bomb.. Look into ZFS from Sun, if they ever release it! We saw a demo on this almost a year ago now, suppose to be released with Solaris 10, but wasn't ready. We were so hyped about this after we lost a shitload of disk arrays under veritas due to hardware issues. This shouldn't happen under ZFS, cause if you have a mirror, it would know that the data being written out was writing corrupt data to the mirror and automagically fix it.
seriously.. check out ZFS.
For the guy posting about FreeBSD, with background fsck.. it's nice.. have yet to loose something on a FreeBSD box due to inproper shutdowns.. (power failures)
I work at a University, as a Technician, have been there for 3 yrs now but I also worked as a consultant too. I have been doing computer work for over 12 yrs (and i'm under 35) so it can mean that I'm close to burnt out.. or just in mid-career. Anyways, I hear this complaint from students every year, how is the degree going to get me a job?? The degree is not a ticket to a job, it tells employeers that you have stuck to something for a long time and have hopefully learned some fundimental basics behind computers, math and programming. You also have to have interests and work on things in your own time which will give you skills which are useful to prospective employers. You want to be a sysadmin? take some time learning unix (linux, freebsd, solaris are all free, but also try and get some AIX and IRIX time), you want to be a programmer then code some big project in your spare time, or volenteer your time to write an app for someone (or a company). Who would have thought that learning to write your own OS would be useful, but it can be, as well as give you a huge amount of respect for those that do it full time. Java/PHP/C++ might not be used in 5 or 10 yrs, but knowing how to calculate big O notation on a loop or travese tree structures will help in any language..
University is all about learing to think, you want a job programming in PHP, get a book and go take some courses at community college. Just don't whine when you cann't find a good job in 3 yrs cause all you know is one thing.
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We are tearing out all our 2.4 equipment cause we can't get a decent signal 500 ft from the tower using a 500mw amp and a 14dbi direction antenna.. there is so much noise and crap on the airwaves (thanks Linksys) that 2.4 wifi is useless as a replacement for DSL/cable. We are moving everything to the 5.3/5.8 spectrum.
I find it hard to believe, that they are covering 600miles of area with good signal, and well enough that you can travel 70miles/hr and still have it stream data.
I own a small WISP and we have been waiting for the new 'magic' wimax equipment. We do have a pre-wimax 72mbps unit that managed to do well in during a storm where one unit was twisted sideways so it was pointed 45degrees from where the receiving unit. so the near LOS for the unit did work, and well, but still the 802.16 units are not out on the market.
Anyone wonder how this company charges $500 for a T1?? We have a problem getting people to pay $300 for 5mbps + a dsl backup with failover dual network router. I would love to have some of their customers. I would guess they aren't using Wimax as they claim but some other units, maybe some 5.2/5.3/5.8ghz units like the motorola canopy system.
Ya.. this sounds great until you try it, and you require next to zero traffic on your home dsl/cable link. I have vonage for a home phone, soon as my cable crapped out the phone sucked and died too.. it was a miserable month trying to get the cable company to replace my modem. The phone now works well again, but there is no QOS for VOIP, and if the cable company knows you are going to be VOIPing they can start throttling down the connections for those ports, they have started to do it for Bittorrent.. legal or illegal data, they don't care, they don't want you using up the pipe.
I do love my mac, though the one button mouse thing has to be the dumbest thing ever that mac had kept running.. it's like having a horse and cart now and saying that it's better then any other modern transportation (gee, look i don't care about rising gas prices.. but you can't go 300miles in a day).
I have a logitech cordless mouse with multiple buttons and scrollwheel, all of which are useful and supported on the mac, esp useful in scrolling around and using the back forward buttons for navigation. I use it so much that when I use a machine with out it, I instinctively just do those button clicks without thinking, and then realize that the button's don't exist. The one button was a good idea like 10 yrs ago, but get with the times, people don't have to wait for something on the computer to happen and require faster respones to those actions.
I work in Southern Ontario and have interest in an ISP which supplies access to small to mid size businesses, we have zero VOIP customers. One partner does use VOIP for internal communications. The cheap voip pbx like asterisk can change things but for most companies who are set with a nortel type pbx that they invested in ages ago and meets the needs of the company are not going to switch out.
We don't even use voip in our office cause it's not mature enough and we already have enough phones and our existing phone system works.
I would look for local ISP that will give you that sort service, there has been alot of small players in the market hitting cottage/farm land with wifi (802.11b) equipment. Mostly consists of getting above the treeline (use a silo) to get a signal... sometimes in open space with no other signals they can travel quite far.
There is also licensed bandwidth equipment which some places are using too. And in the next year hopefully the wimax will solve the last mile problem. Expect to pay some higher costs to get the same sort of service. This is normal, it's easier to wire up a city then the country..but your house/property taxes are a lot cheaper out there too.. everyone really pays for it somehow, that's the trade-off. You want fast dsl/cable and only pay $29/month, move to the city!
This is when you say you would love to help them, that your hourly rate is now $105/hour, and that you require a deposit of $1000 which at that point you will then begin work. Also charge for travel time plus milage. They either want you to fix the shit and the down time isn't worth it, or they don't want to fix it and can go find some other sucker.
There always seems to be no shortage of some morons who think that their kid/nephew/brother or some other halfwit can fix stuff for them really cheap. You don't want them as customers.
Does this release have the ZFS included? we downloaded some pre-releases for sparc and no ZFS which is what we really want to eval so we can dump Veritas.
And it's undeniable that EA is in a good position to pull this kind of team-balancing stunt, because there are simply too many willing-to-work-25-hours-a-day multimedia graduates. If you come across an apple tree full of apples, you'll surely pick the best ones too.
It's called trimming dead weight, they are firing people just as they are hiring new people, go check the website, they have lots of postions they want to fill, and on top of that they are sending a recruiter to our campus.
Lots of companies layoff unproductive workers, if those people are good then they get another job, if not they still manage to fool someone into hiring them, only to be laid-off or fired again. I know lots of people that don't hold a job longer then a year or so, just cause they can't.
There are lots of other places that should be trimming dead weight but never do.. doesn't make them a 'good company' to work for, it actually sort of demoralizes the good works cause they have to pick up the slack of their co-workers.
It's -1F here in Detroit area today, we have had lots of snow and lots of super cold days.. i don't think there is a global warming, it's just that the cold currents change over time... Bring on the heat!!
haha.. it will be so much fun to start yelling into my laptop on a flight..
Though i'm sure it would freak people out to have the SIP phone start ringing inflight, just not one of those things you expect to hear on a plane, the standard telephone ring.
Then again fragging at 30000ft could be interesting.
Ok.. maybe some gnome expert can answer this, i have been going crazy for a few days. I have figured out that if you use the applications-all-users:/// you can set the menu items. But now I need to configure that top panel for gnome on solaris so that people get a standard set of apps..
They are not "warming up the city drinking water", they are using the warmer water for city usage, which is different.
Anyone who lives around Lake Ontario knows how freaking cold that lake is, even when it's high 90's out, humid as hell, you can turn on your cold water and get freezing water out all summer, it's because this is a large deep lake. I live in a different city (still on the great lakes) yet the cold water is noticable warmer in the summer months due to the lake that it draws from being so shallow.
The cold water from Lake Ontario (for city usage) is a constant cold temperature year round, and this is just from the top layer of water that the city uses.
Massive amounts of DVD rips and copies of Movies float around the net due to the availablity of DVD-X copy programs now being turned to 'warez' now that the company that produced it no longer exists and is unable to keep the piracy of their program under wraps....
does anyone else feel like the RIAA is fighting an uphill battle? The more of these things they do, more likely I am to "steal" their product. I won't buy and rarely pay for a commercial entertainment product that they are pushing.
You must be quite the rocket scientist, doing subdivision's of the 12 inches into a foot into fractions. Wow, no one would ever think that it would be easier then dividing something like that.. oh wait, you know it's even easier when it's power of 10's, unless you have a problem breaking a hundred dollar bill. While we are at it we should change the $10 bill to be $12 denominations, cause you can figure out the fractions of that really easily. Bring on the $6, $3 and the $1.50 bils too...
It just seems easier when you are doing carpentry work because everything is measured to imperial, since bright guys like you can't figure out metric and the 'power of 10', it seems that this will be the last place that any sort of change can take place.
You think apple is really about thinking different??
Haha! go to an apple conference and see how different everyone is. Everyone pulls out the exact same laptops, using all the same software, which they buy into the exact same mindset.
It's almost spook how hive like apple people can be.
Just run some free filters, like spamassassin, it it with update of rulesets, bayesian filtering and vipul's razor and it kills almost 95% of spam messages.
I use to get about 120 or so messages a day, maybe 10 or 20 were real emails the rest was spam, now I get maybe 1 or 2 spam messages a day. Just be warned that you need to whitelist some addresses cause companies sending out 'product' updates look an aweful lot like spam to the filter system.
If you have spamassassin set up corretly it will kick ass!
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned this company, they make pretty good equipment and it already has some features not found on Cisco stuff.
We have a full network of this stuff, and we are currently upgrading our core, then moving outwards, plan to do gigabit to every desktop in the next 2 yrs. The new Management tool for the router seems sweet, since the last one sucked ass, it will cost though.. The eqipment isn't cheap but they seem willing to give pretty good discounts (I'm guessing to make sales quota).
we are happy with the preformance of our SS8600 core routers, and some might be up for disposal shortly.. this was due to the upgrade be cause the support contract on the equipment is no longer offered... not because there is anything actually wrong with the units.
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Uhh.. this has already been done.. pimp my ride (or some copycat show) had put lcd's in the side bumpers of a car so that what was playing on the inside would be displayed outside the car. It was in SoCal or somewhere warm.. as that shit wouldn't last till xmas up here in Canada. For those that don't know, the salt trucks would pelt the shit out of it, more then likely breaking the lcd's while the cold would just make them non-functional.
Imagine a beowolf cluster of these!!
just had to add it.
The noise floor in any city is just way to high to use 2.4 units with any sort of reliablity.. sure maybe 5 yrs ago this was fesiable but today.. with every laptop having 802.11b/g, all those Linksys/Dlink units flooding the market there is way too much interference.. the frequency levels are limited.
As an WISP, this is the exact reason we are ripping out all the 2.4 equipment, it's pretty much useless now.. you can only get a reliable like like 500ft from a tower (which is pretty shitty). this is amped and on a parabolic dish antenna.. it's crazy how crap the spectrum has become.
-b
I'm writing a paper on how you put enough cars thru a major traffic intersection and it will create a problem and cause downtime in that area. I'm going to to call it a 'traffic jam'.
Tell us something we didn't know.. every technology has it's limit, flood it beyond capacity and you will see it fail.
nice.
-b
So what are the choices? ext2/ext3 which are slow, reiserfs which sucks ass when it breaks..
.. check out ZFS.
I noticed how they compare the new filesystem to Sun's UFS, which isn't the bomb.. Look into ZFS from Sun, if they ever release it! We saw a demo on this almost a year ago now, suppose to be released with Solaris 10, but wasn't ready. We were so hyped about this after we lost a shitload of disk arrays under veritas due to hardware issues. This shouldn't happen under ZFS, cause if you have a mirror, it would know that the data being written out was writing corrupt data to the mirror and automagically fix it.
seriously
For the guy posting about FreeBSD, with background fsck.. it's nice.. have yet to loose something on a FreeBSD box due to inproper shutdowns.. (power failures)
I work at a University, as a Technician, have been there for 3 yrs now but I also worked as a consultant too. I have been doing computer work for over 12 yrs (and i'm under 35) so it can mean that I'm close to burnt out.. or just in mid-career. Anyways, I hear this complaint from students every year, how is the degree going to get me a job?? The degree is not a ticket to a job, it tells employeers that you have stuck to something for a long time and have hopefully learned some fundimental basics behind computers, math and programming. You also have to have interests and work on things in your own time which will give you skills which are useful to prospective employers. You want to be a sysadmin? take some time learning unix (linux, freebsd, solaris are all free, but also try and get some AIX and IRIX time), you want to be a programmer then code some big project in your spare time, or volenteer your time to write an app for someone (or a company). Who would have thought that learning to write your own OS would be useful, but it can be, as well as give you a huge amount of respect for those that do it full time. Java/PHP/C++ might not be used in 5 or 10 yrs, but knowing how to calculate big O notation on a loop or travese tree structures will help in any language..
University is all about learing to think, you want a job programming in PHP, get a book and go take some courses at community college. Just don't whine when you cann't find a good job in 3 yrs cause all you know is one thing.
We are tearing out all our 2.4 equipment cause we can't get a decent signal 500 ft from the tower using a 500mw amp and a 14dbi direction antenna.. there is so much noise and crap on the airwaves (thanks Linksys) that 2.4 wifi is useless as a replacement for DSL/cable. We are moving everything to the 5.3/5.8 spectrum.
I find it hard to believe, that they are covering 600miles of area with good signal, and well enough that you can travel 70miles/hr and still have it stream data.
-b
I own a small WISP and we have been waiting for the new 'magic' wimax equipment. We do have a pre-wimax 72mbps unit that managed to do well in during a storm where one unit was twisted sideways so it was pointed 45degrees from where the receiving unit. so the near LOS for the unit did work, and well, but still the 802.16 units are not out on the market.
Anyone wonder how this company charges $500 for a T1?? We have a problem getting people to pay $300 for 5mbps + a dsl backup with failover dual network router. I would love to have some of their customers. I would guess they aren't using Wimax as they claim but some other units, maybe some 5.2/5.3/5.8ghz units like the motorola canopy system.
Ya.. this sounds great until you try it, and you require next to zero traffic on your home dsl/cable link. I have vonage for a home phone, soon as my cable crapped out the phone sucked and died too.. it was a miserable month trying to get the cable company to replace my modem. The phone now works well again, but there is no QOS for VOIP, and if the cable company knows you are going to be VOIPing they can start throttling down the connections for those ports, they have started to do it for Bittorrent.. legal or illegal data, they don't care, they don't want you using up the pipe.
I do love my mac, though the one button mouse thing has to be the dumbest thing ever that mac had kept running.. it's like having a horse and cart now and saying that it's better then any other modern transportation (gee, look i don't care about rising gas prices.. but you can't go 300miles in a day).
I have a logitech cordless mouse with multiple buttons and scrollwheel, all of which are useful and supported on the mac, esp useful in scrolling around and using the back forward buttons for navigation. I use it so much that when I use a machine with out it, I instinctively just do those button clicks without thinking, and then realize that the button's don't exist. The one button was a good idea like 10 yrs ago, but get with the times, people don't have to wait for something on the computer to happen and require faster respones to those actions.
Apple should be giving these things away free!
I work in Southern Ontario and have interest in an ISP which supplies access to small to mid size businesses, we have zero VOIP customers. One partner does use VOIP for internal communications. The cheap voip pbx like asterisk can change things but for most companies who are set with a nortel type pbx that they invested in ages ago and meets the needs of the company are not going to switch out.
We don't even use voip in our office cause it's not mature enough and we already have enough phones and our existing phone system works.
I would look for local ISP that will give you that sort service, there has been alot of small players in the market hitting cottage/farm land with wifi (802.11b) equipment. Mostly consists of getting above the treeline (use a silo) to get a signal... sometimes in open space with no other signals they can travel quite far.
There is also licensed bandwidth equipment which some places are using too. And in the next year hopefully the wimax will solve the last mile problem. Expect to pay some higher costs to get the same sort of service. This is normal, it's easier to wire up a city then the country..but your house/property taxes are a lot cheaper out there too.. everyone really pays for it somehow, that's the trade-off. You want fast dsl/cable and only pay $29/month, move to the city!
-b
This is when you say you would love to help them, that your hourly rate is now $105/hour, and that you require a deposit of $1000 which at that point you will then begin work. Also charge for travel time plus milage. They either want you to fix the shit and the down time isn't worth it, or they don't want to fix it and can go find some other sucker.
There always seems to be no shortage of some morons who think that their kid/nephew/brother or some other halfwit can fix stuff for them really cheap. You don't want them as customers.
Does this release have the ZFS included? we downloaded some pre-releases for sparc and no ZFS which is what we really want to eval so we can dump Veritas.
anyone, anyone.... bueller??
And it's undeniable that EA is in a good position to pull this kind of team-balancing stunt, because there are simply too many willing-to-work-25-hours-a-day multimedia graduates. If you come across an apple tree full of apples, you'll surely pick the best ones too.
It's called trimming dead weight, they are firing people just as they are hiring new people, go check the website, they have lots of postions they want to fill, and on top of that they are sending a recruiter to our campus.
Lots of companies layoff unproductive workers, if those people are good then they get another job, if not they still manage to fool someone into hiring them, only to be laid-off or fired again. I know lots of people that don't hold a job longer then a year or so, just cause they can't.
There are lots of other places that should be trimming dead weight but never do.. doesn't make them a 'good company' to work for, it actually sort of demoralizes the good works cause they have to pick up the slack of their co-workers.
-b
It's -1F here in Detroit area today, we have had lots of snow and lots of super cold days.. i don't think there is a global warming, it's just that the cold currents change over time... Bring on the heat!!
also it will help with the heating bills!
-b
haha.. it will be so much fun to start yelling into my laptop on a flight..
Though i'm sure it would freak people out to have the SIP phone start ringing inflight, just not one of those things you expect to hear on a plane, the standard telephone ring.
Then again fragging at 30000ft could be interesting.
-b
Ok.. maybe some gnome expert can answer this, i have been going crazy for a few days. I have figured out that if you use the applications-all-users:/// you can set the menu items. But now I need to configure that top panel for gnome on solaris so that people get a standard set of apps..
anyone got an answer on this?
thanks
-b
huh??
that doesn't make any sense... a Geforce 5200fx is a 5200fx.. if they say doom will run on it then it will...
I run halo on my SP 1.8gig G5 (very first gen) perfectly fine.. uses the 5200.. it's a pretty nice card.. not top of the line.
People seem to think this is a full out gamming system, it's not, you want a highend gaming rig, go build a pc..
-b
They are not "warming up the city drinking water", they are using the warmer water for city usage, which is different.
Anyone who lives around Lake Ontario knows how freaking cold that lake is, even when it's high 90's out, humid as hell, you can turn on your cold water and get freezing water out all summer, it's because this is a large deep lake. I live in a different city (still on the great lakes) yet the cold water is noticable warmer in the summer months due to the lake that it draws from being so shallow.
The cold water from Lake Ontario (for city usage) is a constant cold temperature year round, and this is just from the top layer of water that the city uses.
-b
Massive amounts of DVD rips and copies of Movies float around the net due to the availablity of DVD-X copy programs now being turned to 'warez' now that the company that produced it no longer exists and is unable to keep the piracy of their program under wraps....
does anyone else feel like the RIAA is fighting an uphill battle? The more of these things they do, more likely I am to "steal" their product. I won't buy and rarely pay for a commercial entertainment product that they are pushing.
You must be quite the rocket scientist, doing subdivision's of the 12 inches into a foot into fractions. Wow, no one would ever think that it would be easier then dividing something like that.. oh wait, you know it's even easier when it's power of 10's, unless you have a problem breaking a hundred dollar bill. While we are at it we should change the $10 bill to be $12 denominations, cause you can figure out the fractions of that really easily. Bring on the $6, $3 and the $1.50 bils too...
It just seems easier when you are doing carpentry work because everything is measured to imperial, since bright guys like you can't figure out metric and the 'power of 10', it seems that this will be the last place that any sort of change can take place.
Glad we have smart guys like you to sort us out.
You think apple is really about thinking different??
Haha! go to an apple conference and see how different everyone is. Everyone pulls out the exact same laptops, using all the same software, which they buy into the exact same mindset.
It's almost spook how hive like apple people can be.
-b
Just run some free filters, like spamassassin, it it with update of rulesets, bayesian filtering and vipul's razor and it kills almost 95% of spam messages.
I use to get about 120 or so messages a day, maybe 10 or 20 were real emails the rest was spam, now I get maybe 1 or 2 spam messages a day. Just be warned that you need to whitelist some addresses cause companies sending out 'product' updates look an aweful lot like spam to the filter system.
If you have spamassassin set up corretly it will kick ass!
-b
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned this company, they make pretty good equipment and it already has some features not found on Cisco stuff.
We have a full network of this stuff, and we are currently upgrading our core, then moving outwards, plan to do gigabit to every desktop in the next 2 yrs. The new Management tool for the router seems sweet, since the last one sucked ass, it will cost though.. The eqipment isn't cheap but they seem willing to give pretty good discounts (I'm guessing to make sales quota).
we are happy with the preformance of our SS8600 core routers, and some might be up for disposal shortly.. this was due to the upgrade be cause the support contract on the equipment is no longer offered... not because there is anything actually wrong with the units.